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T. N. RUSSELL.

CAR END CONSTRUCTION.

APPLICATION FILED NOV.26. I9I5.

Patented Aug. 26, 1919.

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CAR END CONSTRUCTION.

APPLICATION mgn NOV. 26. 1915.

Patented Aug. 26, 1919.

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T. N. RUSSELL.

CAR END CONSTRUCTION.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 26. 1915.

1,313,953. PatentedA .26, 1919.

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THOMAS NATHAN RUSSELL, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR T0 CHICAGO-CLEVELAND CAR ROOFING COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

CAB END CONSTRUCTION.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 26, 1919.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, THOMAS-NATHAN Ros- SELL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car End Constructions, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to car end construction, more particularly in connection with cars constructed with wooden frames.

The principal objects of my present invention are the provision of means for strengthening old cars, the provision of improved means for reinforclng cars having frames constructed principally of wood, the provision of improved means for strengthening car ends adjacent the end posts, and generally, to improve and strengthen the construction of car ends.

In attaining these and other objects and advantages to be hereinafter pointed out, I have provided a construction one embodiment of which is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is an elevation of the end of a car strengthened in accordance with my present invention;

Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the car end on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the car end with the roof removed;

Fig. 4 is a section through one of the reinforcing members on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3;

Fig. 5 is a section through the same reinforcing member on the line 5-5 of Fig. 3;

Fig. 6 is a section through another reinforcing member on the line 6-6 of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 7 is asection through the same reinforcing member on the line 7-7 of Fig. 1.

In the drawings I have illustrated a car having a wooden frame of ordinary construction, the frame comprising an end sill 12, an end plate 13, corner posts 11, end posts 14, side plates 20, and longitudinal 81118 15, all of wood. On the inside and outside of this framing is attached the usual sheathing, 10. For supporting the sheathing, it is usual to provide horizontal belt rails 17 arranged across the ends and along the sides, which extend between the end posts and the side posts, respectively.

Now in such construction, particularly where the car 1s used for transporting heavy ob ects liable to be banged to and fro inside the car, the framing of the car and particularly the ends of the car are apt to break or become otherwise injured. One of the objects .of my present invention is to provide means for strengthening such old wooden cars so as to increase their normal life. The ends of the cars are the part which receives the hardest usage, due to internal blows on the car ends and particularly the lower part of the same, received during shunting. .The sheathing between the end posts is not supported except by belt rails 17, and it will be observed that these belt rails 17 are cut away to receive the end posts 14 and are weakened accordingly, so that they are ill adapted to carry strain. Accordingly, I provide vertical reinforcing members 16, externally of the car end, of greater width than the end posts so that they overlap the latter laterally and provide support for the belt rails 17 and the sheathing 10 against blows from the inside outward. These members 16 are 'ven channeled cross section in order to stiffen them, and the channeled portion is of less width than the end posts, so that the corners 30 of these members afi'ord support for the end posts, as shown more particularly in Figs. 6 and 7. The members 16 are bolted to the belt rails 17 instead of to the end posts, so that the latter are not weakened by having holes formed in them.

Strengthening or supporting the end posts and the belt rails 17 is not sufficient, however, as it would transfer the weak point of the car end to the point of connection of the end ts to, the end plate. Accordingly I provide reinforcement for the end plate in the form of a channeled metallic member 18 arranged along the inner vertical face of the end plate. This internal reinforcing member 18 and the upper ends of the external reinforcing member 16 are connected by bolts 29, passing through the end plate. In this way secure connection between the internal end and the external reinforcing members is obtained. One. of the advantages of arranging the horizontal reinforcing members internally of the car framing instead of externally is to provide means for connecting the ends of the vertical reinforcing members to the horizontal reinforcing flange 2 2'of the bracket.

members intermediate the ends of the latter without cutting away any part of the channeled portion of one of the members in order that they may fit together. It will be evi dent that as these members are provided With projecting channeled portions they can be clamped together only in the manner illustrated.

Theconnection between the vertical members 16 and the horizontal members 18 transfers the strain on the car end to the upper corners of the car, and consequently in order to prevent these corners becoming-broken, I provide brackets 19, which are securely connected along one side to the side plates 20, and along another side to the reinforcing member 18, so that the strains'transmitted to the latter from the members 16 are transferred to the bracket, and from thence to the side plates. In this waythe whole of the car end is greatly strengthened by these internally and externally appliedreinforcing members, without any rebuilding or alteration of the original wooden structure of the car being necessary.

The reinforcing members 16 and 18 are preferably formed by pressing a rectangular sheet of metal into the desired form so that no material whatever is wasted.

Both members 16 and 18 are formed of channeled cross section. In the case of the member 16 ,the channeled portion is of varying dimensions, being greatest at a point about one third of the way up the car end Where the strain is usually the greatest. Figs. 6 and 7 show the form of the members 16 at this point and at the ends respectively.

While it is easier to give the channeled reinforcing members '18 the V-shaped form shown in Fig. 4, in which there are no arallel sides nor sharp corners, such a orm is not adapted for connection to the bracket 19, as there is no flat surface centrally arranged to which the flange 22 0f the bracket can. be satisfactorily riveted or clam e'd. Accordingly, While t e center portion 0 the reinforcing member 18 has the cross section shown in Fig. 4, at its ends it has the cross section shown in Fig. 5 so as to provide a flat portion 23, to which can be riveted the At each end the reinforcing member 18 is connected to a bracket 19, which in turn is connected to the side plates 20 of the car. This bracket 19, as will be seen more particularly in Fig. 3, is'formed from a triangular piece of sheet metal by bending two adjacent edges so as to form flanges 21 and 22, which are subsequently connected to the side plate [and the end plate respectively.

The flange 21 which is connected to the wooden side plate is made broader than the flange 22 to give a good bearing surface on the wood.

I overlapping said end post laterally in both directions and a rib substantially centrally formed insaid member of less width. than said end post, said rib increasing in height from, its ends toward a point below the midpoint of said member, whereby both the sheathing on each side of the end posts and the end post itself are supported by means of said member.

2; In a car end construction, end plate and side plate members, a substantially horizontal channeled reinforcing member having vertical flanges attached to the inner face of said end plate, and members attached to the inner face of said side plate and to the channeled portion of said reinforcing member.

3. In a car end construction, end plate and side plate members, a substantially 'hbrizontal channeled reinforcing member having a substantially rectangular crosssection adjacent its ends and having its flanges attached to the inner face of said end plate, and members attached to the inner face of said side plate and to the 'rectanguliar end of the channeled portion of said reinforcing member.

4. In a car end construction, a substantially vertical metallic reinforcing member increasing in width toward its ends and a substantially horizontal metallic reinforcing member arranged on theopposite side of the car end to said vertical member, both of said members decreasing in thickness to ward their ends and overlapping each other, and means for connecting said members.

5. In a car end construction, an external substantially vertical metallic reinforcing member, and an internal substantially horizontal metallic reinforcing member, both of said members decreasing in thickness toward forcing member arranged on the opposite side of the car end to said vertical member, both of said members decreasing in thickness progressively toward their ends and overlapping each other, and means for connecting said members.

' 8. In a car' end construction, wooden end plates, end sill, side plates, end posts and sheathing, a substantially vertical externally arranged reinforcing member connected to said end plate and end sill, a substantially horizontal reinforcing member attached to the inner face of said end plate and sset plates attached to the inner faces 0 said side plates and to said horizontal reinforcing member.

9. In a car end construction, wooden and plates, end sill, side plates, end posts and sheathing, asubstantially ventioal externally arranged reinforcing member connected to said end plate and end sill, a substantially horizontal reinforcing member attached to the inner face of said end plate and triangular flanged plates for connecting said horizontal reinforcing member to the inner faces of said side plates.

10. In a car end construction a substantially vertical metallic reinforcing member, and a substantially horizontal metallic reinforcing member, both of said members decreasing in thickness toward their ends and overlapping each other, and means for connecting said members.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of the two subscribing witnesses.

THOMAS NATHAN RUSSELL. 

